The last listeners of the training seminar "Adiletti kogam - Adal Azamat" of the academic year 2023-2024 were 57 students of the Pedagogical College of Astana International University and the College of Management of Astana.
The young people attended a course of lectures on the topics: "Justice: conceptual principles. Socio-cultural ideals of the Kazakh society. Issues of formation of new values" and "Fair Kazakhstan: on the path of creation", and during the training they learned how to develop and present socially oriented applied projects. In addition, students learned how to use brainstorming and thought management to solve creative problems and disputes through innovative solutions.
Traditionally, excursions to the Museum of the Presidential Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan were organized for offline listeners.
Since the second day of the seminar-training fell on May 31 - Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression and Famine, it was decided to organize a trip of the participants to the Memorial Museum Complex "ALZHIR", located in the village of Akmol - the infamous Akmola camp of wives of traitors to the motherland, where more than 18 thousand women were held in different years. Women whose guilt consisted only in the fact that they were just wives of arrested, shot "enemies of the people".
Aziza Ryskulova and her mother Arifa Yesengulova, Damesh Zhurgeneva, Rabiga Asfendiyarova, singer Lidia Ruslanova, silent film actress Lidia Frenkel, writer Galina Serebryakova, women from the family of the executed Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, mothers of Bulat Okudzhava and Maya Plisetskaya and many other wives of famous state, political and public figures persecuted in Soviet times for political reasons.
During the tour of the museum, students learned about the hard life of the prisoners of "ALZHIR", and viewed exhibits of the museum, among which were elements of everyday life of hopeless gray days: equipment of guards, models of barracks where prisoners lived, their photographs and personal belongings.
"The visit to "ALZHIR" was very emotional and informative. The exhibits featured there evoked in me deep feelings of empathy and awareness of the terrible injustice of those years. We all should know and remember these difficult pages of the history of our people to prevent the repetition of such things in the future", shared her thoughts student of Pedagogical College of International University of Astana Zarina Erkebulanova.
